Secrets and Ashes

Chapter 4: Time to Kick Some Ass

"You frickin' floppin' piece of motherjumpin' tit!" I yelled in my microphone at Ellis's echoing laughter.

I was playing an online game of Call of Duty when Ellis logged in and sent me a message for a one on one duel. Up till now, we were playing for about an hour and a half and that was already extra amount of procrastinating time. Next week, there was this big Physics quiz that I was dreading. Dreading to the extent I was actually afraid to open my book and start studying. And in three weeks, we had a biology quiz, so basically, I was procrastinating in any way possible. Including long talks to Lyanna on the phone, cheering on Liam during his football practice (which I later got kicked out of because apparently 'I'm not allowed to be here' or something. Whatever.), messaging Sean, replying to Jayce's completely inappropriate text insults he sent me(Dont even ask me how he got my number. ugh), going to Starbucks for a latte, and now playing online games with Ellis. Woo-hoo.

I'm definitely not failing. Yes, sarcasm.

Although Bio was my favorite subject, it was pretty hard and needed actual concentration time which I'm not doing any of. And I'm not even going to get started on Physics. Nope

"Calm down girl. You don't want your dad telling you off again," He said through muffled laughter.

My dad has actually threatened to take the Xbox with him on his business trip to Sweden if he hears another one of my 'godforsaken filthy-mouthed' rants. So, for that and only that I was trying to keep my cool, because we wouldn't want that now do we.

"Oh, shut up! I was reloading and you shot me! And for your information that's first class cheating okay?" I countered. No one is permitted to beat me in my own territory, and I'm prepared to act like a baby if my skills were in anyway threatened.

"Yea yea whatever you're just butt-hurt I won."

"Please. I won like six times and you only one twice so what does that tell you, huh?" I said, still trying to defend my dignity that has just shattered. "And one of them was by cheating so if you're satisfied by that then that means you're kinda pathetic to be honest."

Ellis guffawed loudly that I had to take the headphones off for a little while. When I heard him speaking I put them back on. "You are one competitive little thing aren't you?" He said.

I took the chance of Ellis's lowered guard while he rambled on about how he hadn't cheated, and motioned my character slowly towards his, with my newly purchased AK-47 in hand. I zoomed in straight to his character's head using the scope fixed to the rifle and I was aiming for a headshot, for extra bonus points.

Yea that'll show him who is boss. Who's laughing now?

In the same moment I was about to pull on the trigger (or press the button), Ellis's character turned a three hundred sixty degree turn, and shot my character squarely in the head, causing it to fall limp and dead to the ground, which meant I had lost the whole entire game. This time Ellis's laughs were higher than ever and he was almost choking when he said, "Yo, I'm not an idiot Ash."

I groaned and yelled loudly, cursing all that is around me. Involuntarily, I threw my Xbox controller harshly all across the room and it hit the opposite wall.

His laughter wouldn't seize so I just took out my headphones and threw them on the floor too.

When my controller hit the wall, it made a loud crack so I was about to go pet it and mutter some wordsof apology when my phone rang this horrific ringtone.

I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.

Life in plastic, it's fantastic.

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere.